Gas Workers and Saturday Overtime
JUDGMENT OF COURT. NELSON, Feb. 12. “Although my mind is not free from doubt, I have concluded that tho regulations gazetted on August 13, modifying Sections 14 and 15 of the Factories Amendment Act, do not take away from gasworks employees the right to additional wages when they are required to work on the Saturday half-holiday/’ said the Magistrate (Air. T. E. Maunsell) in an important judgment giving his decision for tho department in a case against the Nelson City Council of employing a gas works stoker on Saturday afternoon, not paying the extra rate. The action was brought to test tho effect of tho Order-in-Council on the sections stated. Tho Magistrate considered that the effect of tho regulation was to modify the section by reducing the rate of the additional wages on whole holidays and Sundays from •double time to time and a-half. The section regarding half-holidays was not affected. A charge of reducing wages because of the reduction of working hours was dismissed, although stokers previously worked 56 hours. The Magistrate ruled that the new rates must be worked on a basis of 48 hours per week, as the extra hours were overtime, though not paid for.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 8
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204Gas Workers and Saturday Overtime Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 8
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